Upgrading (Swapping) drives on NT Server

I would say you might want to use both Ghost (even an older version) and PQMagic. First you would need to take a snapshot of the large drive using GHOST. Store the image on the network or zip drive.
Then blast the larger drive and connect the drive to the NT machine. Run GHOST to image from drive to drive, opposed to saving an image file. Now if you want to leave the default partition settings alone you are ready to rock and roll. Otherwise, run PQMAGIC to resize the partition. Remember FAT16 cannot be larger than 2047mb.
Blast the small drive via repartition or reformat and throw the Win2k image onto the machine via GHOST. After you are finished you can resize the partition with PQMAGIC.
GLUCK.

#1 sounds good, but unless the two machines have identical hardware, you should be prepared to face some compatibility issues - video driver, network configuration, and so on. I suspect you'll need to do considerable tweaking to get everything running exactly right.

If you have another PC with a drive with enough room to store the data from the drive with the least amount of info on it, put both of them in that PC. I think you can figure the rest out from there :) If you can't e-mail me jaeath@www.com

If you have access to a third hard disk drive which can be/or is, formatted using DOS, you could use Power Quest Drive Image. (included with Upgrading & Repairing PCs by Scott Mueller 11th edition) Boot the program from floppy with the third drive installed on the secondary IDE in each machine to be duped. Create an image onto this third drive. Then restore the opposite image between drives. PQDI will also allow resizing of partitions to simplify the process. You could then burn a CD with these images and have a reliable backup for any future "dreams".

I have done somthing close to this before but I was replacing an old failing drive with a new one for NT 4.0 side of this, however I have tranfered data for a W2K drive like this as well.

First: Shrink the partitions on both drives by using PQMagic, make the new partitions the minimum size that with fit the data on them. (It works best if you run Norton Defrag on 4.0 and MS Defrag onthe W2K machine.

Second: Use PQ Drive Copy to copy the small partitions to the empty spaces on the oppositedrives((AX)/(BX)=(AB)/(BA) where the empty space is denoted by the X's and the original data A and B is on both drives at the same time).

Third: Use PQMagic again this time remove the partitions from the drives that contain the "Old" data, resizethe new partitions, and finaly MAKE THE NEW PARTITIONS ACTIVE.

Now all of this will work fine if you. I use a DOS based PQ set I don't remember the versions, but they don't support patitions past 8Gigs so after you go through it my way you mayneed to load a Win32 PQMagic and resize it again. Watch out for the partition limits of NT 4.0. In this method You are tranfering and manipulating partitions not individual data pieces, the important thing about this is it overrides security and retains boot sector for the partitions. The one problem I have had is with NT 4.0 I have lost the MBR and had to reinstall the bootblock.

Good luck and send any inquires to nates@grgig.net

I think alot of these answer are good answer. My point is I rather buy a third hard drive than buy Norton Ghost and PowerQuest software. I think they are way more than a hard drive. Good luck on the proj

1. Using norton ghost create an image of one of the drives (disk1) ie. the one with the least data

2. Burn this image to cd or place on spare pc in network

3: Ghost the disk that you didn't create the image of(disk2) to the disk that you have imaged(disk1)

4: Ghost the image on to the disk that you didn't image (disk2)

To create the image file this will require hanging the disk's in another pc

Not knowng the details of your HD's I would take the small HD put it in the computer with the large HD as the slave. If the Large HD has enough free space use partion magic to resize the partition and create a second partition.
1. Booting from a windows 98 boot disk run ghost and make an image of the small disk onto the new partition on the large disk.
2. Ghost the partition with 2k from the large HD to the small HD
3. Ghost the image file on the second partition on the largedrive to the first partition.
4. Use partition magic to convert the large HD back to a single large partition and put the small HD back into it's computer.

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